Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To mention, describe, or treat individually; itemize or specify.
- v. To make particular as opposed to general or universal.
- v. To go into or give details or particulars.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To specify or mention with details; give the particulars of; enumerate or specify in detail; also, to render particular or detailed.
- To single out for mention; make particular mention of.
- To mention or give particulars or details; be particular as opposed to general; specifically, to mention or be attentive to single things or to small matters.
- Also spelled particularise.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To make particular, as opposed to general; to restrict to a specific or individual case, class etc.; to single out.
- v. transitive, intransitive To be specific about (individual instances); to go into detail (about), to specify.
- v. intransitive To differentiate, make distinct from others.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
- v. To mention or attend to particulars; to give minute details; to be circumstantial.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be specific about
Etymologies
- From particular + -ize. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mr. Echenoz employs a similar finesse to particularize moments that are conspicuously irrelevant or ridiculous.”
“That this is the perfect approach to an event that has become fetishized in our culture should go without saying: Tomine's point is not to play into or even against perceptions about marriage so much as to particularize his account.”
The Huffington Post: A Marriage Memoir And A Book About Death: Book Reviews You Might Have Missed
“I am not permitted to particularize, and may only say that the dislike of readers is just as I said it would be, and that dislike expresst without reserve to me, and of course to those who own the other half of the property.”
“To particularize or identify one specific moment downplays how significant this texture, this atmosphere, of living in the dead in that one place, how present that is.”
“Care to particularize that to which countries at which times?”
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Activist Government” and the Rights of Minorities
“When the media focus on "the black vote," "the white vote," and then they start to particularize the white vote within that, they invite us to see race as a defining category of analysis.”
Hillary Chief Strategist: North Carolina Loss Represented Progress Because We Won Among White Voters
“The tendency will be to particularize this gory tragedy as the implosion of one immigrant dream story.”
Sandip Roy: The Dark Twin of the American Dream in Santa Clara
“These major sub-segments particularize even further, based on ethnicity, geographic, life-stage and level of adult development considerations.”
“The word "rational" comes from the root "ratio", to divide or particularize.”
Stacey Lawson: Principle #2: Enter The Field Of Infinite Potential, The Divine Mind
“Awan says that $10,000 was the number they had in mind -- though he acknowledges he hadn't particularize that sum before.”
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
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